Hey, I was wondering if I could get some advice here. I applied for a ground systems engineer position and I got an interview. After the interview they told me that the next step is a 24 hours test or quiz that is more related to industrial. Does anyone have any suggestion to what material should I be practicing or going through to prepare myself?

They emailed me to set up an phone screening and we agreed on a time. They did not call at the agreed upon time and they are ignoring my emails. Why do they do this? Why not just say that they are no longer interested?

Update: they reached back out to me

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Came across this overview of rocket engines. Safe to say that RL can do a lot of optimization on the engine in the future to improve Neutrons performance. What do you think?

Can someone explain what building a constellation exactly means? What is rocketlab trying to do here?

What’s it like living there?

I had applied for Vehicle Integration and got scheduled for a phone interview. When the date/time came, I didn't receive a call but about an hour later got a message that RocketLab decided to go with NZ/Aus residents for the position. Yesterday, I get a email about another job I had applied for(Reaction Wheel) that got filled and was telling me to basically reapply. I see that Vehicle Integration is still up there so I inquired on whether I should reapply for that too. The response I got was most of my recent jobs were too short and the team decided to move on.

I never got a chance to interview to explain that those were contract jobs in the aviation field. They said they were looking for people that had +3yrs at one place but the last 7 years I just worked in aviation(though worked at Sierra Space and Huntington-Ingalls in that time span too), I think most I spent at one place was 2 years but we ended up getting laid off a lot when the job was done. Prior to getting into aviation, I worked at Caterpillar for 5 years. Am I basically out of luck or is there anything I can do to earn another chance at an interview?

I have a theory about why Blue Origin might finally cancel the launch of the Rocket Lab probes.

It was recently revealed that Blue Origin had applied for a license from the FAA to ship the Blue Moon MK1 in March 2025. (https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueOrigin/comments/1eqf17f/blue\_moon\_mk1\_pathfinder\_net\_march\_2025/)

A few days ago Bloomberg revealed that the hardware of the second and third New Glenn ship had been damaged in internal company tests, if the report is accurate, BO only has a single New Glenn ship tested and ready to fly, with the urgency of BO to demonstrate their lunar rover for missions to NASA while Starship is in development, they may have their internal interests as priority. (https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/company-news/2024/08/21/bezos-blue-origin-suffers-fiery-setback-building-new-rocket/)

Let us remember that the probes that Rocket Lab has manufactured are launch class D, low-cost and these can be delayed, since they are not an urgent priority like classes A and B would be.

These are my thoughts, maybe I'm wrong and everything is ready for launch, but if Blue Origin decides in the end that they will not be able to meet the schedule for the window, it is possible that they are considering this path of prioritizing their lunar module since they are very profitable missions that NASA spends a lot of money

Who here isn't selling there shares

Electron mass to LEO: 320 kg

Dry Mass of Photon kick stage: 40 Kg (for Mars applications)

ISP of kick stage engine: 310 s

-> You can push 90 kg to about a DV of 3.9 km/s, so that with 40 kg dry mass kick stage you have 50 kg left for payload.

The RL mission with Photon is about $10M

So $200,000/kg

So maybe 5 10kg cubesats at $2M each?

Compare to a potential SpaceX rideshare on F9 at $60,000/kg (1,500 kg total payload)

They seemed to use a 2 or 4 U Hydrazine Thruster on CAPSTONE. While we like the deep space record of the Explorer bus we might want to go the Ion Engine route.

Little late to the party but let’s get it

It's another great day for rocketlab, my favorite company. Stock price is going bananas today!! I'm a long term holder of shares. Last year at this time we were were around $7 too.

Heya,

I'm looking at applying for a job out there.

Anyone that currently works or has worked out at Mahia, I'd love to chat to see what it's like it there.

Thanks!